The Walter Guinness Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Walter Guinness Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Andover. It was registered in October 1968, 58 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Walter Guinness Charitable Trust reported income of £213k and spending of £158k, leaving 26% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £173k to £213k (+23%), an average of +5.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 21%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, The Walter Guinness Charitable Trust sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Colchester and Tendring Community Trust (£213k), The Kurt and Magda Stern Foundation (£213k) and St Andrews Church Centre Ealing (£212k).